Connection issues in beta, lockstep enabled

Hello,
I'm playing in Awakening beta for a few weeks with lockstep turned on from day 1 I got invited. Everything was working smoothly until yesterday when I started to experience strange lags, freezes, occasional speeding of the game.

One of the examples how this manifests in the game is when I use Quicksilver flask, the character starts moving in a weird wobbling fashion. Another common example is that during heat of battle I get total freeze mid-animation of heavy explosions usually followed by speeding of the game in next few seconds.

Below is WinMTR export that I left run few a few minutes.
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| No response from host - 100 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 109-230-48-1.dynamic.orange.sk - 0 | 739 | 739 | 2 | 3 | 65 | 3 |
| No response from host - 100 | 148 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| teng-2-2.skbra.gtsce.net - 0 | 739 | 739 | 1 | 4 | 185 | 185 |
| bbr01.xn01.fra01.networklayer.com - 0 | 739 | 739 | 21 | 23 | 76 | 22 |
| ae5.dar01.fra02.networklayer.com - 0 | 739 | 739 | 21 | 23 | 76 | 22 |
| po1.fcr01b.fra02.networklayer.com - 0 | 739 | 739 | 23 | 23 | 39 | 24 |
| speedtest.fra02.softlayer.com - 0 | 739 | 739 | 21 | 22 | 74 | 23 |
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WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider


I will post another WinMTR export later taken while I play the game.
Another log, kept it running for quite a while. I did not notice any freezes/wobbling during this period (played 3 maps during this time).

I wonder if anyone can explain to me lines 2 and 4 on the report, best and average pings are very low but there are large increases from time to time.
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| WinMTR statistics |
| Host - % | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
| No response from host - 100 | 419 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 109-230-48-1.dynamic.orange.sk - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 2 | 4 | 149 | 3 |
| No response from host - 100 | 419 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| teng-2-2.skbra.gtsce.net - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 1 | 4 | 197 | 2 |
| bbr01.xn01.fra01.networklayer.com - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 21 | 22 | 63 | 23 |
| ae5.dar01.fra02.networklayer.com - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 21 | 23 | 58 | 23 |
| po1.fcr01b.fra02.networklayer.com - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 23 | 23 | 39 | 25 |
| speedtest.fra02.softlayer.com - 0 | 2089 | 2089 | 22 | 22 | 25 | 23 |
|________________________________________________|______|______|______|______|______|______|
WinMTR v0.92 GPL V2 by Appnor MSP - Fully Managed Hosting & Cloud Provider


The freeze/lags and speedups after you are experiencing are because of your pingspikes, happens for me every now and then when someone watches youtube videos. Im not an expert in winmtr logs but check if you listen to youtube music / someone else in your network downloads as it can cause lagspikes every few seconds. Also view ingame pingmeter with f1, you will notice your ping spikes when you are experiencing the freezes/lags and speedups.
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Here is another random event I have just experienced in the game, WinMTR was not running.

I decided to run another map, so far no problems, happy me. I clear roughly 1/3 of the map when I find Zana. I decide to do her mission, load into Temple instance, only to be welcomed by huge ping spikes. Ping meter was showing up to 880ms, constant stutter, wobbling movement, freezes. I decided this is unplayable and portal out to my original instance. I start carefully clearing it immediately noticing no lag spikes or freezes, ping meter on stable 35ms. I clear the whole instance and decide to go back to Zana's Temple just to check how it goes now. Ping meter goes up immediately upon loading into instance, stutter and wobbling movement is present. Lag spikes are not so large as the first time but are still there. I slowly continue clearing the instance and portal out when my inventory is full. I sell stuff in my hideout and return back to Temple instance. There is no lag, no wobbly movement or stutter and ping meter shows 35ms. Riddle me this.

To ggpenner, I normally watch/listen to Twitch streams or Youtube podcasts on my tablet while I play PoE. There was no issue with this before yesterday. I even tried to stop doing so and the situation posted above occurred without Twitch or Youtube running.

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